Why not throw a debugger; statement wherever you need? And why are you suggesting people to pollute the global scope, risking to override builtin functions by mistake?
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I think what he is suggesting is being able to expose third party libraries to the console via window let’s you play around with input variations - effectively making these things more “repl” like
Yes Tom, Correct. Generally whenever you need to play with third party library. Either you go to repl like site install and play with or install locally module. But at the same time if you are working in some project it irritates to switch context. Debugger is always there but at the same time most people are not comfortable with it. This post is for beginner or newbie who struggle alot. That's why I added disclaimer its just for testing purpose. There are always better method than this once you are proficient in code. Hope you got it @TiagoDias
I get the objective of doing what you did, I'm just trying to warn that people might be gunning their foot since they are less proficient in code and might do something like:
Why not throw a
debugger;statement wherever you need? And why are you suggesting people to pollute the global scope, risking to override builtin functions by mistake?I think what he is suggesting is being able to expose third party libraries to the console via window let’s you play around with input variations - effectively making these things more “repl” like
Yes Tom, Correct. Generally whenever you need to play with third party library. Either you go to
repllike site install and play with or install locally module. But at the same time if you are working in some project it irritates to switch context. Debugger is always there but at the same time most people are not comfortable with it. This post is for beginner or newbie who struggle alot. That's why I added disclaimer its just for testing purpose. There are always better method than this once you are proficient in code. Hope you got it @TiagoDiasI get the objective of doing what you did, I'm just trying to warn that people might be gunning their foot since they are less proficient in code and might do something like:
And from here on they're overriding the
Numberglobal function and their app might not work as expected due to this override.Maybe advise to wrap the global variable in
__likewindow.__<name>__?I'm not against what you did, I'm just trying to warn for possible side effects.
Totally agree. Maybe some variable identifier is good idea. Thanks will update in post as well